Some may say that history repeats itself, and this can be seen as true when observing the culture epoch theory. The culture epoch theory is the idea that every culture goes through cycles of chaos, adjustment, and balance. Now this is true, but not every civilization follows these stages in this order; a great example of this is the Minoan civilization. This civilization lived on the island of Crete around 2600 BCE to 1100 BCE.
The Minoan culture had a very long period of balance before they disappeared. During this balance period, the quality of life was extreme since the Minoans barely went into battle and they were a trading empire. Their culture flourished which lead to many advances, so why did they quickly collapse? The Minoan culture…show more content… Though, the volcano was the only part of the chaos stage. After the volcano erupted, it caused conditions for a tsunami. This tsunami destroyed the Minoans crops and ships. The tsunami carried alga to new areas where it has never been before, and it began to feed off of crops and the nutrients they needed. With the alga around, there was no way that the Minoans could grow their own crops. Without their crops or a way to trade, they could not survive and their balance stage was completely gone. Now there was around 50 years before the civilization completely, and this was the Minoans had their adjustment stage. There are five solutions that any culture can choose during the adjustment stage, and they are to move, invent, dominate, accommodate, or tolerate. Out of these choices, the Minoans did a mixture of accommodate and tolerate. During the lecture, “Early Greece Geography and Chaos” in class, it was stated that the Minoans lost faith in their leaders and gods so they changed their religion aspects (Detrick “Early Greece Geography and Chaos”). The Minoans thought with the natural disasters that have already happened meant that the gods were angry with them or abandoned them, so they turned to extreme measures to
